Nearly a million people starved to death in North Korea while Secret State Department officials calculated if fuel oil could stop a nuclear crisis in a record kept from public view for decades.
By Eleanor Voss ·
A confidential 1998 cable shows how South Korea’s economic fragility and a stalled energy project pushed the peninsula to the edge of a nuclear restart.
By Roy Castellano ·
A security crisis on the peninsula loomed as the U.S. pressed Seoul to resolve funding gaps for nuclear reactors and heavy fuel oil while famine worsened in the North.
By Eleanor Voss ·